The Vulnerability Researcher's Handbook: A comprehensive guide to discovering, reporting, and publishing security vulnerabilities

Learn the right way to discover, report, and publish security vulnerabilities to prevent exploitation of user systems and reap the rewards of receiving credit for your work

Key Features

- Build successful strategies for planning and executing zero-day vulnerability research
- Find the best ways to disclose vulnerabilities while avoiding vendor conflict
- Learn to navigate the complicated CVE publishing process to receive credit for your research

Book Description

Vulnerability researchers are in increasingly high demand as the number of security incidents related to crime continues to rise with the adoption and use of technology. To begin your journey of becoming a security researcher, you need more than just the technical skills to find vulnerabilities; you'll need to learn how to adopt research strategies and navigate the complex and frustrating process of sharing your findings. This book provides an easy-to-follow approach that will help you understand the process of discovering, disclosing, and publishing your first zero-day vulnerability through a collection of examples and an in-depth review of the process.

You'll begin by learning the fundamentals of vulnerabilities, exploits, and what makes something a zero-day vulnerability. Then, you'll take a deep dive into the details of planning winning research strategies, navigating the complexities of vulnerability disclosure, and publishing your research with sometimes-less-than-receptive vendors.

By the end of the book, you'll be well versed in how researchers discover, disclose, and publish vulnerabilities, navigate complex vendor relationships, receive credit for their work, and ultimately protect users from exploitation. With this knowledge, you'll be prepared to conduct your own research and publish vulnerabilities.

What you will learn

- Find out what zero-day vulnerabilities are and why it's so important to disclose and publish them
- Learn how vulnerabilities get discovered and published to vulnerability scanning tools
- Explore successful strategies for starting and executing vulnerability research
- Discover ways to disclose zero-day vulnerabilities responsibly
- Populate zero-day security findings into the CVE databases
- Navigate and resolve conflicts with hostile vendors
- Publish findings and receive professional credit for your work

Who this book is for

This book is for security analysts, researchers, penetration testers, software developers, IT engineers, and anyone who wants to learn how vulnerabilities are found and then disclosed to the public. You'll need intermediate knowledge of operating systems, software, and interconnected systems before you get started. No prior experience with zero-day vulnerabilities is needed, but some exposure to vulnerability scanners and penetration testing tools will help accelerate your journey to publishing your first vulnerability.

學習發現、報告和公開安全漏洞的正確方法，以防止對用戶系統的利用並獲得您的工作得到認可的回報。

主要特點：

- 建立成功的策略，計劃和執行零日漏洞研究
- 找到披露漏洞的最佳方法，同時避免與供應商的衝突
- 學習如何在複雜的CVE發布過程中獲得您的研究得到認可

書籍描述：

隨著科技的普及和使用，與犯罪有關的安全事件數量不斷增加，對漏洞研究人員的需求也越來越高。要開始成為一名安全研究人員，您需要的不僅僅是找到漏洞的技術能力，還需要學習如何採用研究策略並在分享發現的過程中適應複雜且令人沮喪的流程。本書提供了一種易於遵循的方法，通過一系列示例和對流程的深入評估，幫助您了解發現、披露和發布您的第一個零日漏洞。

您將首先學習漏洞、利用和什麼構成零日漏洞的基礎知識。然後，您將深入研究制定成功的研究策略、應對漏洞披露的複雜性以及與有時不太合作的供應商一起發布研究的細節。

通過閱讀本書，您將熟悉研究人員如何發現、披露和發布漏洞，如何應對複雜的供應商關係，如何獲得對他們的工作的認可，並最終保護用戶免受利用。憑藉這些知識，您將準備好進行自己的研究並發布漏洞。

您將學到什麼：

- 了解零日漏洞是什麼，以及為什麼披露和發布它們如此重要
- 了解漏洞是如何被發現並發布到漏洞掃描工具中的
- 探索開始和執行漏洞研究的成功策略
- 發現負責任地披露零日漏洞的方法
- 將零日安全發現填入CVE數據庫中
- 解決與敵對供應商的衝突並解決問題
- 發布研究結果並獲得專業認可

本書適合安全分析師、研究人員、滲透測試人員、軟體開發人員、IT工程師以及任何想要了解漏洞是如何被發現並向公眾披露的人。在開始之前，您需要具備中級的操作系統、軟體和相互連接的系統知識。不需要有關零日漏洞的先前經驗，但對漏洞掃描工具和滲透測試工具有一定的接觸將有助於加快您發布第一個漏洞的過程。

1. An Introduction to Vulnerabilities
2. Exploring Real-World Impacts of Zero-Days
3. Vulnerability Research – Getting Started with Successful Strategies
4. Vulnerability Disclosure – Communicating Security Findings
5. Vulnerability Publishing – Getting Your Work Published in Databases
6. Vulnerability Mediation – When Things Go Wrong and Who Can Help
7. Independent Vulnerability Publishing
8. Real-World Case Studies – Digging into Successful (and Unsuccessful) Research Reporting
9. Working with Security Researchers – A Vendor's Guide
10. Templates, Resources, and Final Guidance

1. 漏洞介紹
2. 探索零日漏洞的現實影響
3. 漏洞研究 - 成功策略入門
4. 漏洞披露 - 傳達安全發現
5. 漏洞發佈 - 在資料庫中發表您的工作
6. 漏洞調解 - 當事情出錯時，誰可以提供幫助
7. 獨立漏洞發佈
8. 現實案例研究 - 深入研究成功（和不成功）的研究報告
9. 與安全研究人員合作 - 供應商指南
10. 模板、資源和最終指南